The population giant’s baby bust
A vertical documentary explainer that turns a demographic reversal into a chart-led story with archival context and a future-stakes payoff.
By @TheEconomist for The EconomistRuns 02:45
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Why it works
The first cut lands at 0:00.95, while a contradiction stays on screen across several crowd shots; a full-screen trend chart supplies proof by 0:06.3. New explanatory turns at 1:03, 1:20 and 1:44 keep the 2:44 report moving, and the forecast at 2:28.5–2:30.2 aligns with its strongest replay peak. Three long chart holds let viewers read the evidence between runs of 1–3-second human footage.
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